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Talarico Casts Senate Race as Anticorruption Fight, Aiming at Paxton and Elon Musk

At a University of Houston event, the Democratic state representative used one of his last Houston-area stops before the Nov. 3 election to accuse Republican Ken Paxton of corruption and to attack Musk's financial backing of him.

Kendra Konchanuk · Oct 21, 2026
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